Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An emergency congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party yesterday elected the former prime minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec , as chairman to guide it through free elections due within six months . |
| 2 | Now there there is the scheme by the Department of Transport to upgrade it to dual it u as far to Malton and then beyond subsequently . |
| 3 | The art of management , however , was more than the successful bribery of fifty per cent plus one , if for no other reason than the fact that there was never enough of the articles of bribery to employ it on such a scale , even if the voters had been willing to be so bought . |
| 4 | In the productivity of Lake Vanda phosphorus is a limiting element ( Vincent and Vincent , 1982 ) , because of gravitational losses into the sediment and lack of turbulence to return it to general circulation . |
| 5 | ’ It took quite a lot of resolution to utter it at all . |
| 6 | I wrote and said that a lot of members our pension , we could n't afford it , and that we owned our own hall so therefore we had a lot of cost to keep it in good repair and why was it nine pound . |
| 7 | No academic libraries since the time of the Travelling Workshops Experiment have successfully applied the strategy and it is most unlikely that illuminative evaluation ‘ in toto ’ will ever get the opportunity to prove itself in academic user education , largely because of the lack of time to pursue it in full . |
| 8 | Now it is a race against time to rebuild it before high spring ties later this month . |
| 9 | Keeping in moisture to protect it against all manner of evils . |
| 10 | The most familiar representative of this type of person is the public benefactor , who with the utmost aggressiveness and energy demands money from one set of people in order to give it to another . |
| 11 | These instruments are used to make straight cuts across the embryo in order to subdivide it into particular regions or fragments . |
| 12 | The second kind of implicatures come about by overtly and blatantly not following some maxim , in order to exploit it for communicative purposes . |
| 13 | It , too , must now be separately assessed in order to distinguish it from that part of general damages that bears interest — namely , damages for pain and suffering and loss of amenities ( Pickett v British Rail Engineering Limited [ 1980 ] AC 136 ) . |
| 14 | In fact , the term ‘ interest ’ is applied to a claim in order to distinguish it from other claims , usually with the implication that the claim labelled an interest deserves a remedy . |
| 15 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 16 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 17 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |
| 18 | Anyway , Nigel , who loved trout , used to drain the millpond from time to time to rid it of some of the accumulated silt and then just pick them up . |
| 19 | The detainer is liable for any damage caused to the livestock by failure to treat it with reasonable care and supply it with adequate food and water . |